Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 25, 2011
Transcript:
Val: If you go to Haiti, how long will you BE there? Gramma Evie: I'm not sure yet. Val: Is it SAFE? Gramma Evie: Oh, there's a little instability, a little kidnapping, a little malaria...a slight cholera epidemic... Gramma Evie: Nothing serious to worry about. Val: WHAT?!
rayannina over 12 years ago
Sorry, Evie — you lost me at the malaria …
hsawlrae over 12 years ago
…and a little murdering.
doc white over 12 years ago
Let the Q tip live a little woun’t you.
pdking77 over 12 years ago
Now she’s gone from charitable to irresponsible.
psychlady over 12 years ago
Maybe she should just LEAVE!
SuperFreckles over 12 years ago
It’s not the voodoo you need to worry about it. It’s the Roman Catholicism (if that’s even a term)!
Staylor111 over 12 years ago
No one said anythiner about murdering! And there are meds for the malaria and cholera. But we can’t send them houses – someone has to go build them…
jomali3945 over 12 years ago
I see that bigotry is alive and well.
fritzoid Premium Member over 12 years ago
Such a shame that the people and places that need help are so uncomfortable and depressing. If poverty were only nicer, they’d get a much better response. In charity as well as romance, desperation is a turn-off.
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 12 years ago
That earthquake was harrowing last year.